Fifty-two researched notes on off-grid power, water, food storage, communications and safety. Each one opens with a specific figure that changes a decision, names the mistake people make, and tells you what it costs in watt-hours. No filler, no top-ten lists.
These go out one a week by email. All of them are free to read here.
Four steps on a napkin. No guessing, no sales pitch.
NO. 02 · Solar & PowerLead-acid gives you half of what the label says.
NO. 03 · Solar & PowerThe voltage decision that saves you hundreds in copper.
NO. 04 · Comms & MeshIt can rival your fridge in daily watt-hours.
NO. 05 · SafetyThe danger was never the voltage.
NO. 06 · WaterThe gap that puts people flat on their back.
NO. 07 · Food StorageThree barriers, pennies a bucket, 30 years.
NO. 08 · SafetyIt isn't a knife, a gun, or a battery.
NO. 09 · Solar & PowerThe $80 part that acts like free solar.
NO. 10 · Rig SystemsEverything getting replaced, and why.
NO. 11 · Solar & PowerThe one people forget shuts the system down.
NO. 12 · Solar & PowerThe mistake that permanently kills an expensive battery.
NO. 13 · Comms & MeshThe comms layer nobody's heard of.
NO. 14 · WaterA $25 mistake people make at every fill-up.
NO. 15 · Solar & PowerDuty cycle is the number that matters.
NO. 16 · SafetySix rules that prevent fires. All boring.
NO. 17 · Food StorageYou can't see it, smell it, or taste it.
NO. 18 · Cost & ValueWhy a smaller array plus a backup beats a huge array.
NO. 19 · Rig SystemsNo black tank. Here's the actual trade.
NO. 20 · Power & GenerationTwo hours of driving ≈ a good solar day.
NO. 21 · Solar & PowerLithium sits flat, then falls off a cliff.
NO. 22 · Food StorageHonest math on the biggest purchase in food storage.
NO. 23 · Solar & PowerOne isn't better. Here's how to actually pick.
NO. 24 · Comms & MeshOne takes an afternoon. One takes a weekend.
NO. 25 · Solar & PowerYou don't need a rig to need power.
NO. 26 · SafetyOff-grid changes the math completely.
NO. 27 · Solar & PowerTwo wires, two very different outcomes.
NO. 28 · WaterThen people ruin it. Here's the fix.
NO. 29 · Rig SystemsThe heaviest load in the rig, made survivable.
NO. 30 · Power & GenerationThe cube rule explains all the disappointment.
NO. 31 · Food StorageThe habit that makes storage actually work.
NO. 32 · Solar & PowerShade isn't proportional. It's worse.
NO. 33 · Comms & MeshEverything else on the list is convenience.
NO. 34 · SafetyFive minutes that protects your most expensive part.
NO. 35 · WaterThe part that kills pumps, and the cheap fix.
NO. 36 · Solar & PowerTen minutes. Often worth a whole battery.
NO. 37 · Power & Generation100 watts, 24 hours a day, beats a big array.
NO. 38 · Cost & ValueNone are exciting. All are correct.
NO. 39 · Food StorageHave you budgeted that propane?
NO. 40 · Solar & PowerThree decisions now that save thousands.
NO. 41 · SafetyThey get painted over, blocked, and seized.
NO. 42 · Rig SystemsEvery line item, including the mistakes.
NO. 43 · WaterIt's usually what limits how long you stay.
NO. 44 · Solar & PowerThe runtime math, in four steps.
NO. 45 · Comms & MeshWhat a booster can and can't do.
NO. 46 · Solar & PowerDoable, cheap, and worth getting right.
NO. 47 · Power & GenerationThe mistake that wastes fuel and kills engines.
NO. 48 · SafetyVoltage drop reveals what nothing else does.
NO. 49 · Food StorageMost of the benefit, a fraction of the cost.
NO. 50 · Solar & PowerWhat the spec sheet doesn't put in big type.
NO. 51 · SafetyThe winterizing checklist, before the first freeze.
NO. 52 · Field NotesThe five things that mattered most.